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Fauci predicts U.S. should have "couple of hundred million doses" of coronavirus vaccine by new year - CBS News

Fauci predicts U.S. should have "couple of hundred million doses" of coronavirus vaccine by new year - CBS News

Fauci predicts U.S. should have
Jun 03, 2020 1 min, 10 secs

While public health experts, including Fauci, have said it takes 12 to 18 months to develop a vaccine, President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar are aiming to have 300 million doses of a vaccine available to the American people by the new year.

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Phase III trials for a vaccine candidate developed by Moderna, a U.S.-based biotech company, are expected to begin in early July.

Another vaccine candidate from AstraZeneca, developed by the University of Oxford, is proceeding on a similar track, Fauci said.

"I'm cautiously optimistic that with the multiple candidates that we have with different platforms, that we're going to have a vaccine that shows a degree of efficacy that would make it deployable," he said, adding that most who become infected with the coronavirus recover and make an immune response to clear the virus.

"If the body is capable of making an immune response to clear the virus of natural infection, that's a pretty good proof of concept to say that you're going to make an immune response in response to a vaccine," he said.

"It isn't as if we're going to make the vaccine, show it's effective and then have to wait a year to rev up to millions and millions and millions of doses," he said.

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